Vincentian Creole English

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Vincentian Creole English is an English-based Caribbean creole language spoken primarily by the people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Vincentian Creole 2
Vincentian English Creole 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Caribbean creole language
English-based creole language
creole language
spoken language
belongsTo Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group
coexistsWith Standard English
developedFrom contact between English and African languages in the colonial period
developedIn plantation society of Saint Vincent
hasAlternativeName Nation language of Saint Vincent
Vincentian
Vincentian Creole English
surface form: Vincentian Creole

Vincentian Creole English
surface form: Vincentian English Creole

Vincentian dialect
hasEthnicGroup Vincentians
hasGrammaticalFeature copula deletion in some contexts
pronoun system distinct from Standard English
tense-mood-aspect particles
hasInfluenceFrom British English
French Creole
surface form: French creole languages

Indigenous Caribbean languages
West African languages
hasISOStatus no separate ISO 639-3 code as of early 2020s
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant cluster reduction
non-rhoticity in many speakers
hasSociolinguisticSituation exists in a continuum with Standard English
hasStatus not an official language of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
hasTypicalWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin script
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Grenadian Creole English
Trinidadian Creole English
other Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles
isSubjectOf creole linguistics research
languageFamily Atlantic English creole
Caribbean English creole
English creole
primaryLexifierLanguage English
region Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
spokenIn Grenadine Islands
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines NERFINISHED
island of Saint Vincent
usedAs language of informal communication
vernacular language
usedIn everyday conversation
music
oral tradition
storytelling

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Trinidadian Creole English closelyRelatedTo Vincentian Creole English
this entity surface form: Vincentian Creole
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines commonLanguage Vincentian Creole English
Vincentian Creole English hasAlternativeName Vincentian Creole English
this entity surface form: Vincentian Creole
Vincentian Creole English hasAlternativeName Vincentian Creole English
this entity surface form: Vincentian English Creole
Afro-Vincentians language Vincentian Creole English
Vincentian language Vincentian Creole English